Hello everyone, both old and new!

It has become very quickly clear to me that the ani.social instance is a better fit for this community. Comparing the engagement alone over at .ml after 8 months and here after only 3 days is hardly something to dispute. And that isn’t even counting the support from mods of “adjacent” communities. Special thanks to @wjs018@ani.social!

So I decided, with both a heavy heart and anticipatory elation, to go along with the migration and make it permanent. I closed down the .ml community and going forward I’ll post my weekly updates only here.

There is also good news (more good news?)! Honestly, it has been a struggle to keep it up over the last few months, and actually seeing some engagement here right off the bat did wonders for my (renewed) motivation. So yesterday I channeled my inner motivational demon lord and set up 3 things for the community:

  1. a Light Novel Wiki (reachable at https://lnwiki.bitkata.de/)
  2. a Discord Server (Invite Link: https://discord.gg/VJ7yrfq2ex)
  3. a clean Minecraft Server (add “yurgenschmidt.bitkata.de” to your server list)

Necessary (for currently 17 users)? No, but let’s start the new home for the community with a bang ;)

I hope the community will thrive here and we can enrich our reading hobby with additional discussions.

    • NineSwords@ani.socialOPMEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Why thank you. As an occasional VN enjoyer I’ll subscribe and give my impression once I play/read (what’s the correct term here?) one again. I still have The House in Fata Morgana on my Ally installed but just didn’T get around to put more than a few minutes into it. Same goes for The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. But at least I got 2 hours or so in.

      I also added the community to the sidebar, maybe it helps a bit with the “just compromised of you" part.

      • The_Entire_Circus@ani.socialEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        I’ve heard of that VN before on r/visualnovels but haven’t read it, haha. Seems pretty highly-rated though.

        “What’s the correct term” - it depends on who you ask, the community’s figuring that out themselves

        To be honest, the VN community here is rather dead. (It also wasn’t really alive over at Burggit where I migrated over from)

        But maybe that’ll change with time and some memes and some missteps by Reddit, so we’ll see. All the best for your fledging community over here!